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Mauled by a lion in South Africa

Charles Starmer-Smith

"You'd better put on an old jumper as you might get some blood on it," said our driver, with a grin, as we clambered into the Land Rover to visit the lion sanctuary at Legends resort, deep in Limpopo Province, in the far north of South Africa. I laughed it off, before slipping on the most padded jacket I had. This was a date with a lion after all.

I took solace from the fact that the lion I was going to visit was called Mapimpan, which means “little baby” in Shangaan, and it was little more than...

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